
Baseball's Power Shift
How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
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John T. Arnott
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Krister Swanson
From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players' desire to form a viable union, every attempt to do so failed. In the mid-1960s, star players Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale staged a joint holdout for multiyear contracts and much higher salaries. Their holdout quickly drew support from the public; for the first time, owners realized they could ill afford to alienate fans, their primary source of revenue.
Baseball's Power Shift chronicles the growth and development of the union movement in Major League Baseball and the key role of the press and public opinion in the players' successes and failures in labor-management relations. Swanson focuses on the most turbulent years, 1966 to 1981, which saw the birth of the Major League Baseball Players Association as well as three strikes, two lockouts, Curt Flood's challenge to the reserve clause in the Supreme Court, and the emergence of full free agency.
Swanson shows how fans and the media became key players in baseball's labor wars and paved the way for the explosive growth in the American sports economy.
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In 1876, baseball owners adopted the reserve clause, which bond a player to his team for the duration of the player's career. The player could be sold or traded, but was not afforded the opportunity to shop his services around the league. Despite challenges through the years, it would not be until Curtis Floyd's successful legal fight that the courts finally struck down the dreaded reserve clause, opening the door to free agency.
Swanson documents how the public's perception of unions was shaped by the media, often times resulting in fans siding with the owner's in labor squabbles. The owners were able to convince fans that the players should feel fortunate to earn a living playing a kid's game, and were ungrateful and selfish when they complained. The players had to convince the public that they were workers, and deserved to be treated fairly. Some players had to work outside of baseball to support their families.
As established in "Baseball's Power Shift," owners insisted on the reserve clause to assure competitive balance. When challenged about the merits of the reserve clause, the magnates stated that baseball was an unique business, which required unique rules. Holding all the cards, owners could blacklist players that attempted to play elsewhere. For decades, the league was able to thwart off efforts of the players to unionize.
The players considered turning to the Teamster's for assistance, but finally in the 60's, a union was formed led by the shrewd Marvin Miller. The union successfully exposed the owner's inflexibility, and the public's perception started to shift. Miller was able to protect the player's pension fund, and rallied support among some of the reluctant players. Swanson traces the decades of labor strife, and brilliantly shows how it relates to today's issues.
A history of labor relations in MLB
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